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I want your opinions on video games. For science!

I've made a survey that tells you what type
of gamer personality you are. Are you an Immersion Engineer, or an Escape
Artist? Do you battle with real people or seclude to the shadows in a world of
your own making?

The reason why I made it is to gather
research on people's gaming behaviours. This study for my masters thesis at The
University of Sydney. Now as a gamer myself (WoW Heroic Tomb of Sargaras
Raider), I feel like I have a good grasp of the gaming community, but as with
all things, you need to do the research to confirm/disconfirm these
assumptions.

The survey itself is looking to explore information
about:

• Different aspects of your personality

• What video games you play

• How much you play by yourself and with
other people

• The impacts of your video game use on
your daily life

You can find a link to the survey and more
information here (you might need to disable adblocker):

So let me know what you think. Do you think
I guessed right? What did I miss?

One more thing. A survey like this is
limited, and doesn't give people a voice to add what they want to say. I really
encourage open opinions about the video game community and maybe how the news
and public have a negative view of video games. Whenever I present, I add the
personal messages people have sent me to encourage other researchers to
remember that we are people too, not just numbers. Tell me what you think and
let me know if I can share your comments in my presentations.

Thank you,

Gavin

Comments

Reclusive Tactician and Immersion Engineer do seem to describe me. I play most genres of game excluding shooters, and I definitely evaluate games I might try according to what kind of experience they might be. My favorite game games are probably 1. Tactical/time management, 2. jRPG or story-based MMO, 3. oldschool adventure, 4. Strategy, 5. Acton/arcade, 6. Puzzle/solitaire. Because I'm looking for an experience, sandboxes don't work well for me even though they have lots of engineering potential.

As a person who isn't very impulsive or spontaneous, and who rejects experiences that make me unhappy, I tend not to have problems with addiction. I don't know if I would struggle more with my craving for game time if I had less free time though.

I found the question about first video game puzzling. Your first game is always given to you or recommended strongly to you by someone else, so the genre is unlikely to say anything about you as a gamer.

I want to help design and develop a PvE-focused, solo-friendly, sandpark MMO which combines crafting, monster hunting, and story. So PM me if you are starting one.

I play online video games, I'm new, I play about half a year, while I'm practicing and studying.On the game, I spend about 5 hours a week, try to play in my spare time.I try not to damage the family and work, I play for fun http://getcasinobonus.co.nz/

I play online video games, I'm new, I play about half a year, while I'm practicing and studying.On the game, I spend about 5 hours a week, try to play in my spare time.I try not to damage the family and work, I play for fun http://getcasinobonus.co.nz/

You need to follow the link and answer the questions in the questionnaire.

Mayhem Mystic though...eh...is it trying to tell me that I'm a mossback? That I'm not really Open to New Experiences? It certainly looks like that lol. This is really quite something!

edit: It was a nice enough survey. But I cheated somewhat and picked the first game I CHOSE to play as opposed to simply the first game I EVER PLAYED(has to be Super Mario or something as opposed to Chaos Gate{what I wrote under "first game"} ; quite different eh?)

My favorite genres:

1. Action Adventure2. RPG3. Action(of Vermintide kind rather than of Call of Duty kind)4. Turn Based Strategy(a la X-com / Mordheim ; not 4X)5. RTS(or more accurately, something like Sins of a Solar Empire ; don't like Starcraft that much tbh)

In short:

Good action with good story and character creation / development = win. Though there has to be structure to the game(or otherwise simply "matches" aka MOBAs or Vermintide which you can do endlessly)...Minecraft likes that almost completely lack structure are not for me. To quote Sun, I look for experiences(more lively than her I wager) ; Minecrafts are rather lacking in that.

For favorite games, think of your Vermintides, your Dawn of War 2s, your Morrowinds and of your Diablos. Also of Dragon Ages etc.

Immersion engineer I can see being a pretty general one that most people identify with on some level but it is pretty spot on. I go from game to game to game a lot and have to make a conscious effort to devote myself to one game sometimes to preserver the social relations I've built in that game. I also love most genres of games other than sports games.

Clan Lord is a very interesting one because nowhere in this survey did I mention I've ever lead of served in leadership capacity of a guild/clan. I have. In fact I'd say I've spent about 90% of my time in multiplayer games as the leader of the guild I belong to. So this one is very spot on, not very general, and I'm really not sure how they know that.

Cool test.

Edit: Ehhh after reviewing the description again I see they are just going on about how I enjoy the social interaction. So it is very general in the description, but the title seems very specific and just happens to be super on the money for me.